Books like Brief Interviews with Hideous Men
A story collection that threads transcripts of interviews with men about how they treat women among other experimental stories, from a boy on a high diving board to a depressed woman who cannot stop talking about her pain.
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Oblivion
Eight long stories about consciousness, suffering, and the impossibility of escaping one's own mind, Wallace at his most claustrophobic and technically dazzling.
Mantissa
A novelist confined to a hospital bed is attended by a muse who transforms into different women, in Fowles' most experimental and playful novel.
Beautiful Losers
A Montreal folklorist mourning his wife writes about the seventeenth-century Mohawk saint Kateri Tekakwitha and about F., his friend, mentor and his wife's lover, in Cohen's wild, explicit second novel.
The Collected Stories of Lydia Davis
Lydia Davis's four collections in one book: stories that run from a single sentence to a few dozen pages, about marriage, mothers, grammar, dinner and the workings of a mind.
Homesick for Another World
Stories of deeply unlovable Americans examining their own decay with uncomfortable clarity.
The Lottery and Other Stories
Stories of suburban menace and domestic cruelty, anchored by the infamous title story of a village ritual.
Sabbath's Theater
A sixty-four-year-old puppeteer of unspeakable depravity refuses to apologise for a life devoted to art, sex, and the refusal of every social norm.
How Should a Person Be?
A young woman in Toronto tries to figure out how to live by imitating her friends, making art, and asking the title question with increasing desperation.
Malina
A woman living in Vienna with a silent man named Malina and loving a violent one named Ivan writes her own disappearance in a book that is part novel, part score.
The Doll: The Lost Short Stories
Early stories du Maurier wrote in her twenties and lost for decades, including the title story of a young man's obsession with a mysterious violinist.
The Piano Teacher
Erika Kohut, a piano teacher at the Vienna Conservatory nearing forty, lives with her controlling mother, and when a young student, Walter Klemmer, pursues her, she sets out her own terms.
Airships
Short stories about Southern men in love and at war, from Jeb Stuart's cavalry to Vietnam, written in sentences that swing from tenderness to violence without warning.